John Middlebrooks
Abstract
Determined efforts by our lab and others have failed to find a point-to-point map of space in the auditory cortex. In the past few years, we have championed a different form of representation, in which individual neurons represent auditory space more or less panoramically and individual locations in auditory space are represented accurately by widely distributed populations of neurons. Before rejecting the notion of a point- to-point map, however, we must deal with two nagging questions: First, are we looking in the right place? Second, are we being mislead by the use of an anesthetized preparation? The seminar will present new results obtained by roaming far afield in the auditory cortex and by study of awake, behaving cats.